Fastener



April 22 1924. 1,491,319

' W. J. 80TH FASTENER Filed Oct. 20, 1923 Patented Apr. 22, 1924. hfifhdlt ITEDSTATES PATENT FFICE- WALTER T. SO'IH, OF HOHOLUL'U, TERRIIO'RY OF HAWAII.

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Application filed October 20, 1923. Serial No. 669,762.

T all whom it may concern: outwardly at 7 whereby the same may be Be it known that I, WALTER J. SoTH, a engaged through the'buttonholes provided citizen of the United States, residing at in the collar as well as in the neckband of Honolulu, in the Territory of Hawaii, have the shirt as hereinafter set forth.

5 invented certain new and useful Improve- In Figure 1 the collar designated 8 has ments in Fasteners, of which the following 1ts usual end tongue portions formed at is a specification. thelr upper edges and at opposite sides of This invention relates to improvements in the usual longitudinal buttonholes at their fasteners and particularly to that type of lower edges with vertical buttonholes as fastener employed in the securing of collars shown. The back of the collar is also proto the neckba-nds of shirts. vided above the usual longitudinal button- The main object of this invention is to hole and at opposite sides thereof with verprovide a fastener for the above purpose tical buttonholes for obviously receiving the wherein the liability of the usual extension uppermost clasp members 6 of my improved tongues of the collar as well as the back porfastener.

tion thereof becoming detached from the In actual practice, and after the lowerneckband of the shirt is reduced to a minimost clasp elements ofa pair of these fasmum. teners are engaged through the buttonholes An additional object is the provision of at the front and rear of the neckband 9 of a such a fastener that is of such a shape whereshirt 10 the buttonholes at the rear of the by should the same drop upon the floor it collar 8 receive the clasps 6 of the rearmost will not tend to roll about and become lost fastener after which the collar may be enas is now the case with the usual collar gaged around the neck and the buttonholes button employed for this purpose. of the end tongue members manifestly also An additional object is to provide such an receiving the clasp members 6 of the forearticle wherein the same may be manufacmost fastener for thereby practically absotured and marketed at a cost extremely less lutely preventing the unfastening of the than the cost. of the manufacture and marcollar 8,from the neckband of the shirt. listing of the above mentioned collar button. In view of the above it will at once be With the above and other objects in view apparent that I have provided a highly as the nature of this invention is better unnovel and simplified form of fastener wherederstood, the same comprises the novel'form by collars may be securely attached tothe of the invention as set forth in the followneekbands of shirts and wherein the liability ing specification, shown in the accompany of the same becoming disengaged therefrom ing drawing and claimed. is reduced to a minimum.

In the drawing, wherein there is shown Minor changes may be made within the the most practical embodiment of my inveninvention without departing from the spirit tion and wherein like reference characters and scope of the appended claim. indicate corresponding parts throughout the Having thus described my invention, what 4' several views. I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- Flgure 1 1s a perspective View partly ters Patent 1s:- v5 broken away, of a collar shown as being at- A collar fastener comprlslng a triangular cached to the neokband of a shirt through plate having at the apiees of its angles, inthe medium of a pair of my novel fasteners, turned hook portions disposed over the in- 45 Figure 2 is a front elevational view of this termediate portion of the plate, the median fastener, and longitudinal dimensions of two of the hooks 1% Figure 3 is an edge view thereof. at adjacent corners of the plate being sub- With specific reference to the drawing, my stantially in longitudinal alinement with novel fastener embodies a relatively V- each other and the median longitudinal diso shaped piece of sheet metal 5 the corners mension of the remaining hook portions beof which are relatively long and are inturned ing disposed in alinement with the center of for providing clasps 6, the portions of the the plate. 7 material forming these clasps being bent in- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. wardly adjacent their outer ends and then WALTER J. SOTH. 

